Curtis Coleman, a contender for the Arkansas Republican Party nomination to the office of governor, stumps during a town hall meeting Saturday at Donald W. Reynolds Library serving Baxter County.

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The leader of the Ozark Tea Party says Arkansas conservatives were "stabbed in the back" by conservative state lawmakers who lined up in the 89th General Assembly in support of the Health Care Independence Act of 2013, also known as the "Private Option" law.

OTP founder Richard Caster named state Republican Sen. Johnny Key of Mountain Home (Dist. 17) and Sen. Missy Irvin of Mountain View (Dist. 18), along with House Republican Kelley Linck of Yellville (House Dist. 99), as lawmakers who parted ways with conservative constituencies in Baxter and Marion counties against Medicaid expansion.